Brendan Rizzo, technical director for HP Security Voltage (www.voltage.com) issued the following commentary on the hack of British Airways frequent flyer miles accounts:
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Passwords. For all the talk about two-factor and multi-factor authentication, to mainstream adoption of biometrics, passwords are not going away.
Symantec has reported that an older vulnerability is still being exploited through new malware they call Trojan.Laziok. targeting the energy sector and governments. In response to this attack, which is triggered by users opening an email attachment, cybersecurity expert Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software (www.liebsoft.com) said:
Undisputed messaging market leader incorporates leading secure messaging solution to meet user demand for privacy and protection for Openwave’s 400 million users
The proliferation of data flowing outside of corporate firewalls is creating a security conundrum.
We all know how difficult it is to keep your users from downloading malicious files and/or visiting suspect websites even when you tell them explicit things to look out for (malformed urls, executables, files with multiple extensions, etc).
Blundering Brits are leaving family, friends and workmates raging or red-faced – with their email and text gaffes, according to new research.
Security experts have commented on the current rash of loyalty program breaches in response to news that over the last few days, a large number of British Airways customers have found that their Avios frequent flyer reward points accounts had been breached.
The proposed smartphone solution, the Blackphone, is here. But what exactly does it protect you against and how does it compare to other smartphones?
A recent report published by the British government and the insurance sector, aimed at addressing concerns surrounding Cyber security, revealed that 98 per cent of large UK firms do not have an insurance policy in place which could help them recover from a serious cyber attack, despite 81 per cent suffering a breach in the past 12 months.